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2. Stream bed - Wikipedia

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   A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river and is confined within a channel, or the banks of the waterway. [1] Usually, the bed does not contain terrestrial (land) vegetation and instead supports different types of aquatic vegetation (aquatic plant), depending on the type of streambed material and water velocity. Streambeds ...

3. Sedimentary structures - Wikipedia

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   These beds range from millimeters to centimeters thick and can even go to meters or multiple meters thick. Sedimentary structures such as cross-bedding , graded bedding , and ripple marks are utilized in stratigraphic studies to indicate original position of strata in geologically complex terrains and understand the depositional environment of ...

4. Armor (hydrology) - Wikipedia

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   Armour of basalt blocks. In hydrology and geography, armor is the association of surface pebbles, rocks or boulders with stream beds or beaches.Most commonly hydrological armor occurs naturally; however, a man-made form is usually called riprap, when shorelines or stream banks are fortified for erosion protection with large boulders or sizable manufactured concrete objects.

5. Bedform - Wikipedia

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   A bedform is a geological feature that develops at the interface of fluid and a moveable bed, the result of bed material being moved by fluid flow. Examples include ripples and dunes on the bed of a river. Bedforms are often preserved in the rock record as a result of being present in a depositional setting.

6. Stream restoration - Wikipedia

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   Robinson Creek in Boonville, California, had highly eroded stream banks prior to initiation of a stream restoration project.. Stream restoration or river restoration, also sometimes referred to as river reclamation, is work conducted to improve the environmental health of a river or stream, in support of biodiversity, recreation, flood management and/or landscape development.

7. Rock-cut basin - Wikipedia

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   A rock-cut basin is a natural cylindrical depression cut into stream or river beds, often filled with water. Such plucked-bedrock pits are created by kolks ; powerful vortices within the water currents which spin small boulders around, eroding out these rock basins by their abrasive action.

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9. Ford (crossing) - Wikipedia

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   Crossing the Red River near Granite, Oklahoma in 1921 Crossing the Milkhouse ford through Rock Creek in 1960 A ford next to a bridge that can only support 1.5 tonnes in Aufseß, Germany. A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet. [1]